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Liao, Chen-Huei; Kuo, Bor-Chen – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2011
The present study examined the equivalency of conventional and web-based tests in reading Chinese. Phonological awareness, rapid automatized naming (RAN), reading accuracy, and reading fluency tests were administered to 93 grade 6 children in Taiwan with both test versions (paper-pencil and web-based). The results suggest that conventional and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Fluency, Phonological Awareness, Grade 6
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Lee, Lay Wah; Wheldall, Kevin – Reading Psychology, 2009
This study examines the simple view of reading from the perspective of a language other than English, the Malay language. The aims of the study were to determine (a) the contributions of decoding and listening comprehension to reading comprehension in Malay; (b) which model, the multiplicative model or the additive model, of the simple view of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indonesian Languages, Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading)
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Ding, Yi; Richman, Lynn C.; Yang, Ling-yan; Guo, Jian-peng – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2010
The purpose of this study was to evaluate rapid automatized naming skills (RAN) and immediate memory processes in 243 Chinese Mandarin-speaking elementary readers (ranging from Grade 1 to Grade 5). For RAN subtests, the mean naming time decreased monotonically with grade level in good and average readers, and a similar trajectory was found in poor…
Descriptors: Cues, Speech Communication, Reading Difficulties, Disabilities
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Ipek, Ismail – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2010
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of CBI lesson sequence type and cognitive style of field dependence on learning from Computer-Based Cooperative Instruction (CBCI) in WEB on the dependent measures, achievement, reading comprehension and reading rate. Eighty-seven college undergraduate students were randomly assigned to…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Reading Comprehension, Cognitive Style, Statistical Analysis
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Neddenriep, Christine E.; Skinner, Christopher H.; Wallace, Monica A.; McCallum, Elizabeth – Journal of Applied School Psychology, 2009
We conducted two experiments designed to investigate the effects of ClassWide Peer Tutoring (CWPT) on oral reading fluency and the generalization to students' rate and level of reading comprehension. First, an alternating treatment design was used to compare two sixth-grade, general education students' rates and level of oral reading comprehension…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Fluency, Generalization, Reading Skills
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Georgiou, George K.; Das, J. P.; Hayward, Denyse V. – Journal of Research in Reading, 2008
The purpose of this study was to compare the contribution of two different versions of working memory to word reading and reading comprehension in relation to phonological awareness and rapid naming speed. Fifty children were administered two measures of working memory, namely an adaptation of the Daneman and Carpenter sentence span task and…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Sentences, Phonological Awareness, Short Term Memory
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Vukovic, Rose K.; Siegel, Linda S. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2006
The double-deficit hypothesis of developmental dyslexia proposes that deficits in phonological processing and naming speed represent independent sources of dysfunction in dyslexia. The present article is a review of the evidence for the double-deficit hypothesis, including a discussion of recent findings related to the hypothesis. Studies in this…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Reading Difficulties, Phonology, Reading Rate